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Brian DeGraw has released his debut album as his alias bEEdEEgEE (Picture: Michael J Fox)

The keyboard-bothering alias belongs to Brian DeGraw, a visual artist, producer and musician best known here for his founding membership of New York’s Gang Gang Dance.

Although that band has been treading an experimental synth-pop/electronica/psychotropic-rock path for more than a decade now, this is DeGraw’s solo debut.

It’s a more maverick record than recent Gang Gang Dance releases but no less groovy or instantly engaging, despite bending futuristic pop even more out of shape and occasionally drifting off on hazily reflective sound clouds.

And whether he’s summoning the DayGlo abandonment of the club dance floor, as he does on (F.U.T.D.) Time Of Waste – which sees Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip stepping up to the mic – or channelling Kanye West via Looney Tunes on the closing Quantum Poet Riddim, DeGraw never once loses his grip on the melody.